Think of all of the young jocks that now have "blue balls" (send them my way).
A scheduled screening of Digital Playground's "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge" at the University of Maryland has been canceled after state lawmakers threatened to cut funding to the university if it went on as planned. University President C.D. Mote Jr. decided to cancel the screening, which had been approved by a student programming committee, after a debate this morning in the state Senate.
"That's really not what Maryland residents send their young students to college campus for, to view pornography," Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said. He acknowledged the legislature shouldn't get involved in censoring movies but also said the state General Assembly is not going to support screening hardcore pornographic movies on a state campus paid for by taxpayer dollars.
As of Wednesday, the student union at Maryland had not received any complaints about the screening, but reporters found that many on campus were unaware that it had been scheduled. Digital Playground provided the film to the university for free, so no student fees or state money was used to bring it to campus.
Four years ago, the university's student union showed "Deep Throat," said Lisa Cunningham, program coordinator for the union's Hoff Theater.
"We thought this would be something fun for the students to do, especially since we're getting close to the end of the semester," Cunningham said. "We're a college movie theater and we thought it would bring out the students."
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